Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-01-27
RESULTS OF FALSE EDUCATION
The Tendency to Make Idlers Instead oi
Workers-Girls' Notions.

The Tendency to Make IdIers Instead oi
Workers-Girls' Notions.
Neither the boys nor the girls taught
won't say educated in the public school;
want 10 take hold of actual work for G
living. Very few Of the boys are willing
to learn trades, especially if they are KEEP,
at school long enough to get notions about
being gentlemen" Nearly all expect tc
get into some | ght occupation, something
respectable" and not requiring them tc
soil their hands or wear workshop cloth
ing. They are willing TO he bookkeepers,
or statesmen, or general clerks. or to bt
taken into banks, and many Of them have
an eye on brokers offices in Wall street
and many more on the offices the poll
ticians are always fighting for. But they
don't want to turn to and learn to be car.
penters, or blacksmiths, or plumbers, oi
bricklayers, or stonecutters. or anything
else that means a steady days work viii
the hands.
This is partly why New York is swarm.
ing to-day with fairly taught young mer
looking for situations as clerks or book
keepers or as conductors on the street
cars, or as canvassers of all sorts, and un.
able to get them. These thousands were
produced, largely by false education,
twenty to thirty years ago, and we art
producing other thousands, many more
thousands, to-day to replace them wher
they go As for. the girls, does any one
suppose that a public school girl would
think of going out to domestic service, GoOd
house servants can get from SO 10 $50 pei
month, with good food and comfortable
homes. but the public school girl would
rather die first" than take employment
of that kind If actually obliged to carr
her living she will become ''saleslady, y
or learn some light trade, or do copying
or typewriting or telegraphing, neither ol
which perhaps will pay her as well in the
long run; but hire out in family she viii
not under any circumstances.
IL her parents are able to keep her al
home this girl is often nuisance and
burden. She does not want to do any Ol
the household work, but she does want tC
be well dressed and to- go out great deal
The chances are that she wants piano
too. While going 10 school she heard
other girls talk of having pianos, and per
haps some of her friends have these in
struments of torture, and she must alsc
have one. So, may be, piano is hired
father or mother could not possibly buy
one at S5 or SO month, and then the
''parlors must be refurnished, the ole
things look so shabby beside the piano, y
and a carpet and some new furniture are
bought on the installment plan, which
means double price, and SO it goes on til
the hard working father and slave Of q
mother are at their wits end to keep the
pot boiling.
do not charge all this to the public
schools, but they are undoubtedly re
sponsible for a large part of it, any way
The plain public schools of thirty years
ago were in the main an excellent institu
ton, but the fancy public schools of to-day
are in some respects q positive evil In
stead Of fitting our youth 10 earn 6
living" they unfit them TO large extent
and tend to make idlers in place of work
ers.-New York Cor. Detroit Free Press